Nextar launched a pair of larger GPS units for drivers. The 5-inch SNAP5 and 7-inch SNAP7 both pay unusual attention to ergonmics with thinner, 0.7 inch displays and a unique magnetic car mount that keeps the navigators in place while still making it easy to remove them and keep them safe when the car isn’t in use. In software, their advantage revolves around a more detailed 3D mode that includes polygonal versions of major buildings and landmarks. The company otherwise outfits the SNAP models with slightly above average GPS features such as spoken street names, MP3 playback through stereo speakers and JPEG photo viewing. Nextar gives the GPS units SD cards preloaded with American and Canadian driving maps and plans to sell them at comparatively low prices for their screen sizesThe Nextar SNAP5 and SNAP7 will be released in the US market in Spring 2009 for $299.99 and $349.99, respectively.

Here is the Motorola Motonav TN30 GPS navigation system, has a 4.3 inch wide anti-glare touchscreen display (480 x 272). You can connect it to Bluetooth 2.0 compatible handsets for hands-free conversations. The Motonav TN30 also features preloaded maps of the 50 US states, Canada and Puerto Rico, 2D and 3D map perspectives, spoken street names and turn-by-turn directions, automatic day/night mode adjustment, SD card slot for updated maps and a USB charging port. The Motonav TN30 retails for $300.

The LG Xenon that is expected to be available in the U.S. as soon as Christmas time.LG Xenon has a 2.8 inch screen touch screen that slides to the side to reveal an awesome full QWERTY keyboard. Unlike Apple’s and Google’s phone this LG comes with VGA video recording option and has a 3MP digital camera.

As far as connectivity LG Xenon offers quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA compatibility for 3G data transfers. You’ve also got the Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and the USB 2.0 port.

Clarion prepare to launch its portable navigation device ‘ClarionMiND’ running on Atom processor and Linux OS.

Adopting a 4.8-inch touch screen with 800*480 resolution, the ClarionMiND supports full browser, 4GB of flash memory, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, Google Map, YouTube, and Real Player.

The ClarionMiND is expected to be available in North America in this November and in Europe market in January, 2009.

Pioneer has rolled out not one but four new GPS navigation gadgets this week. Known as the HRZ099, HRZ088, HRV022, and HRV011, these gadgets share the same specifications including 40GB storage capacity, 1Seg TV, 7-Inch LCD Screen and can play WMA, MP3, AAC, and DivX file formats. These navigation systems are also compatible with the iPods. The Pioneer HRZ099 is the High-End model that comes equipped with a resolution of 800 x 480. Meanwhile, the Pioneer HRZ099 and HRZ088 are also equipped with a built-in Amplifier that produces a maximum output of 50W x 4ch.

The company JJ-Group has released for sale its first avtonavigator with the possibility of receiving and analyzing information on traffic jams - JJ-Connect Autonavigator 4000W Traffic. In this avtonavigator already built GPRS-receiver, and users now do not need to use multiple devaysov to be aware of the busy roads. JJ-Connect Autonavigator 4000W Traffic receives information about traffic jams, automatically opened the tour route, choosing the optimal time and mileage way.

Information about the traffic jams will be supplied by SMILINK. Renewal occurs every five minutes. Monthly fee for the service is 200 rubles 90 kopecks per month.

In addition to GPRS, Navigator has all the qualities of previous models JJ-Connect. First and foremost, this is a convenient widescreen display 4,3 “. Autonavigator 4000W Traffic can play music and video files. Because of inherent function device can also replace the e-book and photo album. 

Thinkware has released its high-end 7-inch navigation device ‘iNAVI K7′ in Korea market, which is equipped with its dynamic electronic map of 3D space representation ‘iNAVI 3D’.Adopting 8GB SDHC memory card and 256MB of RAM/ROM, the iNAVI K7 provides useful information on the 3D environment structure through a 7-inch WVGA(800 x 480 resolution) LCD in a photo realistic way.

The iNAVI K7 incorporated G-Sensor(Geomagnetic sensor: 3 axis sensor detecting absolute direction of north pole and heading direction of automobile) that enables stable use of navigation system, by enhancing the cognition of path of vehicle and speed up the search on iNAVI software.
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Garmin is now offering the special edition Garmin Edge 705 GPS Navigation System for a limited time only. This navigation gadget comes jam packed with a heart-rate monitor, speed/cadence sensor and detailed street maps with turn-by-turn directions and lots of POIs. You can pick up the vanilla Edge 705 for $500.

Navevo announced BBNav, a Blue Badge GPS navigation system, specifically designed to help disabled drivers and those caring for the disabled, such as their families or carers. The specialty of the software is mostly is in its POI database which contains suitable parking locations and other helpful locations for Blue Badge holders.

Other features of Navevo’s BBNav includes:

• Blue Badge and Red Route on-street parking bays
• Disabled-accessible car parks
• Local council Blue Badge parking concessions
• Over 60,000 Points of Interest (20,000+ Blue Badge)
• NAVTEQ street level mapping covering UK and Republic of Ireland
• 7 digit postcode routing
• Safety Camera Alerts

BBNav comes with maps for the UK and Republic of Ireland, and six month free trial of safety camera alerts.

BBNav will go on sale in October 2008 for £200.

Kinwei Technologies of Shenzen is a GPS navigation system manufacturer. Revealed the KW-GM4306TG. KW-GM4306TG is a GPS navigation system and a gaming console in one device. Nothing like a PSP though.

The device has a 4.3-inch TFT LCD Touch screen with 480 x 272 pixels resolution, and is powered by a Samsung ARM9 400MHz processor. Microsoft Windows CE.NET 4.2 is the operating system and comes with a controller for the games. Inside there’s a 64MB SDRAM ROM and 256MB NAND flash, and a high sensitive SiRF III antenna with 20 channels.

GPS navigation system KW-GM4306TG features:

• Navigation software: ARMV4I compilation, software stored in SD card
• Built-in Bluetooth module and antenna
• Hands free communication and shows incoming phone numbers
• Memory slot: SD card and MMC card
• Built-in 3.7V Li-ion battery
• Supports multiple languages